RIP Robert Watts

*Mayhem* · 10-01-2024, 01:21 AM

Watts was employed by producer Gary Kurtz as production supervisor on Star Wars. He had met Kurtz several years earlier in Los Angeles. Watts then enjoyed a long collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, working as associate producer on The Empire Strikes Back and co-producer on Return of the Jedi; and as associate producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark and producer on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also worked on other Steven Spielberg-presented productions, including as producer on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and with Spielberg's long-term producer Frank Marshall on Marshall's second feature as director, Alive.

Always had me in stitches with stories about people he worked with, who I shall say, were either not particularly good at their job or nice people. He didn’t care hah… when I first met him at Celebration V, he had smuggled pints of beer under his table to drink during the day!

He was also Jeremy Bulloch’s half brother and encouraged him to audition for a small role as a certain bounty hunter…!

10-01-2024, 01:21 AM	#1
Mayhem Foot Elite Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: London, England Posts: 4,086	RIP Robert Watts Watts was employed by producer Gary Kurtz as production supervisor on Star Wars. He had met Kurtz several years earlier in Los Angeles. Watts then enjoyed a long collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, working as associate producer on The Empire Strikes Back and co-producer on Return of the Jedi; and as associate producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark and producer on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also worked on other Steven Spielberg-presented productions, including as producer on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and with Spielberg's long-term producer Frank Marshall on Marshall's second feature as director, Alive. Always had me in stitches with stories about people he worked with, who I shall say, were either not particularly good at their job or nice people. He didn’t care hah… when I first met him at Celebration V, he had smuggled pints of beer under his table to drink during the day! He was also Jeremy Bulloch’s half brother and encouraged him to audition for a small role as a certain bounty hunter…! __________________ Lie with passion and be forever damned...